Hey, I have been following your blog closely, because your daughter is as the same age as my son who will enter 8th grade. We moved from Indiana to New York State a little more than a month ago and he's not happy with his new school, so we are considering homeschooling him. So your blog is a perfect resource for me! Yup, my daughter was homeschooled prior to the move and she's attending Rochester School for the Deaf now and she appears to be happy there, especially socially.
One of your fans, Karen Mayes
5/12/10, 6:31 AM
I have to say that I think we are really getting a handle on this "homeschooling" thing! The past few months have been going by so fast, so smoothly and SO productively ~ I am just amazed at how much we have gotten accomplished. Our homeschooling style has changed a lot over the last two and a half years, without a doubt we are much more relaxed and go with the flow so much more than we did at the beginning! In the springtime a lot of homeschoolers who follow the traditional "school year" start to look ahead for curriculum and programs for the next school year. As we school year round, things can get a bit fuzzy as to where one grade stops and another begins. For reporting purposes our "grades" go from July to June - so KM will begin her 8th grade school year this coming July. Since KM has a tendency to want to blow through some programs at the speed of light while she meanders and delves deeper into others we also tend to have books and programs on all different levels at one time. I have been getting many emails from interested readers about our picks for 8th grade and we are in the process of making the final decisions, but aren't quite done yet. We began a good amount of new programs during this spring session - you can see the current things we are using in the right hand column near the top of the page - and many of these we will continue with throughout the summer. In the past we have done a substantially lighter workload during the summer, however this year we have cut back to 3 days of book work, so we will be staying with the same pace for the summer months. I am thinking about changing up our one a day plan though and trying something like focusing on one subject each week over the summer, but I am not sure if that would be too overwhelming or pushing too much at one time. This is something that I will have to discuss with KM and see how she feels before I make the final decision. So as far as resources go, just check back and I will let everyone know when I have the final list together or something changes.
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Close this window Jump to comment formHey, I have been following your blog closely, because your daughter is as the same age as my son who will enter 8th grade. We moved from Indiana to New York State a little more than a month ago and he's not happy with his new school, so we are considering homeschooling him. So your blog is a perfect resource for me! Yup, my daughter was homeschooled prior to the move and she's attending Rochester School for the Deaf now and she appears to be happy there, especially socially.
One of your fans,
Karen Mayes
5/12/10, 6:31 AM